Hi

I have a 2014 1.25 fiesta and I only bought it 6 months ago. The garage that I bought it from has since closed down but they told me they changed the cambelt when they bought the car- they stamped the service book too.

I remember asking them if they changed the water pump along with the cambelt and they said no as it doesn’t run off the cambelt so no need to. 

Im just wondering now if they didn’t change the water pump maybe they didn’t change the tensioner pulleys / idler pulley. 
 

Does anyone know if it’s possible to change the cambelt and pulleys without changing the water pump ? I’m hoping they would have replaced all the tensioner pulleys but a bit I’m worried they only replaced the actual belt and left the rest. 
 

thanks!

 

 

 

Yes it's perfectly possible to change the cam belt without replacing the water pump.

Of course you would have to guess as to whether the belt has been changed, was the oil pump replaced and did the oil strainer get cleaned.

What mileage has the car done ?

@unofix

no idea if the oil pump was replaced. All they said was that the cambelt was changed but that they didn’t do the water pump.

Hoping they’ve changed the pulleys/ tensioners along with the belt.

 

it was 45,000 when I bought it but now I’ve done 52,000

 

thanks 🙂

 

I would like to think they were telling the truth but I really do wonder why they would be changing the belt on a car that was at the time about 7 years old and only 45,000 miles.

The standard 1.25 cambelt kit, will come with just belt and tensioner. There are no extra rollers for the cambelt on that engine.

Its best practice to change the water pump as you have to remove the cambelt to replace the water pump, although it doesnt run off the cambelt, its just bolted behind it. Lots of garages will only replace the water pump if it looks like its been leaking. 

If your really concerned whether its been changed or not you could always pay a garage to just take off the cam cover and look at the belt.

Also i think they changed the interval on some of these engines to 8 years from 10 years, plus they tend to break early, even mine did once! so would have been due in 2022, so about right.

Yeah they said it had to be done at 8 years which was how old it was when I bought it. They used to be a Ford main dealer but turned into a franchise then became private . So they seem like a legit company but it’s just frustrating the guy sold the company so now I have no way of getting in touch if something goes wrong. 

I doubt they’d lie cos why would they say they didn’t change the water pump and just the cambelt. Surely they’d just say the whole thing was changed. 

 

good idea to get a garage to check the cambelt though! I didn’t know it was possible to check that.

im probably over thinking it but just don’t want it snapping/ the tensioner falling apart if it wasn’t done properly. 
 

 

 

 

11 hours ago, unofix said:

was the oil pump replaced and did the oil strainer get cleaned.

It's a 1.25, not an not an Ecoboost!

Original water pumps mostly last a long time. If a perfectly good water pump is replaced with a cheap one then the cheap replacement might fail sooner than the original one may have not. It might not but it might.  So it still having the original water pump, if it has, may not be a bad thing. Most decisions on cars are a gamble . Sometimes parts last forever sometimes they don’t. 

6 hours ago, isetta said:

Original water pumps mostly last a long time. If a perfectly good water pump is replaced with a cheap one then the cheap replacement might fail sooner than the original one may have not. It might not but it might.  So it still having the original water pump, if it has, may not be a bad thing. Most decisions on cars are a gamble . Sometimes parts last forever sometimes they don’t. 

I'll vouch for this statement, as mentioned in another post i learnt the hard way with the "cheaper " water pump, it lasted about 14 months !